In a sharp swing back to the dancefloor, Touane returns to Persona with the whip-snap rhythms and high bpms of Toulousian Duck. Always one to confound, Touane is back in force as he expands his dark mix of dub, funk and house. 'Sitting In' has been a staple of Touane's recent live sets and the *clou* moment of them all.
'Sitting In' builds an intertwining forest of beat lines into the dark unknown. The soft, mossy bass throws the crashing hiss, like wind and rain through scraping leaves, into sharp relief and an already surreal edge is honed by bucolic shimmers rising like mist, whining synths and a plaintive sax riff at breakdown.
‘Lappa’ overwhelms with percussive power, a muscley dance track with the melancholy of a mountain landscape and the groaning horns of faraway valleys. Landscapes loom large through the spooky tension of these tracks.
With restraint, Touane builds 'Goro Goro' with pulse and vacuum, shadowy synth and rustling details to create a lusciously immersive environment.
Norwegian video artist Christine Istad is using a recording from Persona (Stewart Walker & Carsten Nicolai: Meer-Mir, from Reclamation: 1997-1999) for an upcoming exhibition of her work "Behind Green" at Art Museum KUBE in Ålesund, Norway with an opening 9th of July.
Soldering for me was always an annoying process back when I needed to fix my electric guitar jacks when they broke. I was 16 then, and not really into schematics and electricity diagrams, I wanted just to play in a rock and roll band. Fortunately, that did not work out ...
I.A. Bericochea makes his debut on Persona with an EP of beats, guitar strings and the flotsam of lovingly home-recorded sounds; three tracks of warm seductive allure perfect for the witching hour.
A couple of weeks ago I was performing in The Hague, The Netherlands at the end of a very eclectic night of a festival called "Berlin Ruft An" In the middle of my set, a woman brought me a handwritten note asking me if I could please play something by Chicks on Speed.
It's no good getting quality outboard stuff if what you are going to record has to go through a cheap audio card. Make sure your audio card ad/da converters are very good. I wouldn't go crazy with the super hi end ones at this point of my studio setup, RME quality does a good job. I personally got an old Motu 828, and discovered Black Lion Audio modifies them, inserted an 8 ad/da converter of a superior quality, and a new clock. And for a reasonable price as well.
